In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.

I don't believe in sexual love.

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

There's a strong aspect of Buddhism which is geared towards ending all fertility.

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.